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THE ATLANTIAN
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ing matters you may entrust to us is considered too insig
nificant for close and courteous attention.
Accounts of individuals, as well as those of firms and
corporations, are solicited.
We have a Department for Savings in which we pay
interest, compounded semi-annually.
We have a Department Exclusively for women, in.
charge of a woman teller, and most conveniently arranged
to facilitate the transaction of business.
CAPITAL $600,000.00
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FOURTH - NATIONAL-BANK.
not be a candidate for re-appointment.
He retired with the grateful apprecia
tion of the public for the services ren
dered and the expressed regret on the
part of the many whose favor he had
won.
After his .retirement from the Com
mission, he was frequently urged to
become a candidate for the governor
ship of the State. He gave the matter
serious consideration, with an ex
pressed partial purpose of making the
race. After further consideration he
finally declined in favor of Hoke
Smith, who advocated views on public
questions in harmony with his own.
Governor Smith offered him a place
on the Railroad Commission, which he
declined.
Mr. Brown is a forceful speaker. He
is always calm and dignified in bear
ing, and succinct, clear and logical in
statement. His strong common sense
will always attract the attention of
the people he addresses, and his deep
convictions and evident sincerity of
purpose largely determine contentions
in his favor. During the time of his
public service, he addressed the peo
ple upon many public questions and
his views have largely shaped the
policy of the State upon many lines.
His most notable address among the
many that have attracted the atten
tion of the people was delivered be
fore the Southern Cotton Association
upon its organization in New Orleans,
February, 1906. This address was
included in the following words: ‘‘The
great need of this agricultural country
is markets for her products. We note
with pleasure that the cotton question
i3 interesting some of our representa
tives in Congress. If pardonable, I
would suggest a great, broad field for
the use of their talents. Let partisan
ship rest for a season, give statesman
ship a chance; let Republicans and
Democrats join hands in the effort to
find new and broader fields for the
products of our fields. The energies
of the West and the South are hamp
ered for the want of markets. The
South has the land and the labor to
produce fifteen million bales of cot
ton, whenever the price will warrant
it The capacity of the food-producing
West has not been tested.
“The time for us to act has come.
Today we are in better condition to
act than at any time since the civil
strife. We have emerged, neck deep,
from the ashes of our poverty, but
today we stand upon a plane of abso-
lue independence, if we will only be
true to ourselves and the resources at
our command.
“Let us organize, unawed by threats
of spinners to close down, unaffected
by advice of false prophets, undis
mayed by past failures. Let us or
ganize our forces, remembering that
in unity there is concord and strength
—that in division there is discord and
defeat.”
Mr. Brown was married to Miss
Annie Righton Miller, in May, 1880.
To this union five children have been
born. Two are now living.
Mr. Brown has always been a Demo
crat. He is a prominent member of
the Baptist church an demember of
the Board of Trustees of Mercer Uni
versity. His favorite exercise is rid
ing horseback over his extensive
fields.
To the young he commends: "Hon
est methods; industrious habits; tem
perance in all things, and total ab
stinence from strong drink.”
THE VALUE OF ENEMIES.
Reginald Wright Kauffman.
A man may be known by the com
pany that he keeps, but he is certain
ly proved by the company that he
repels. The former he may smetimes
deceive, but the latter almost never.
All the world over, the coward is the
enemy of all the brave, the liar of all
the true; all the world over there is
no better proof of a man’s virtue than
that he should be persecuted by a
loose woman, no better evidence of a
woman’s worth than that she should
be slandered by a libertine.
When I see a man hated by a fool,
I know that he is wise; when I hear
him disparaged by a braggart, I know
that he is honest. Among my own ene
mies I am fortunate enough to have
one that is evil, one that is a boaster,
one that is stupid, and two that are
all three. Of the first two I do not
know which has helped more my good
name, but I do know that no one alive
has helped my good name so much
as the last two.
Do not, then, waste your time upon
revenge. I once knew a man with a
wife, child, and friend. First privately
and then publicly, the friend took the
wife; the wife kidnaped the child.
The man, after he had regained his
senses, allowed himself to be blamed
and cheated rather than hurt the char
acters of the runaways, who, of course
hated him all the more cordially there
for.
But what happened? The man found
himself able to win the race of life
because he was no longer hampered
by a woman unworthy of him; the
child, unharmed, grew up to doubt her
mother and hate her stepfather; and
the wife and the friend, because they
knew these things to be so, became
mere drunken brawlers.
Revenge is absurd. If you try to
brush aside the filth you will only soil
your own hands. If it attacks you, it
will only bring itself into comparison
with you and thereby show the world
just how much dirt it is.
Choose your friends with care, but
select your enemies with caution.
Your friends will be a personal help
to you; but out in the world where,
unknown to you, he goes about revil
ing you, a well selected enemy is your
best asset—The Cosmopolitan.
IN A TUMBLER, ETC.
(From the Topeka State Journal.)
At this stage of the game ice is
about the only thing that is really
what It is cracked up to be.
THE SILENT VICTIM.
(From the St. Paul Pioneer Press,)
Every country except Morocco is
having something to say about the
war in Morocco.
BRIFF FILED BY BERNARD SUTTLER
Continued from page 8
North Georgia in the hands of a power
trust for an hundred years to come.
VI. The talk of possible competition
is a pleasing figment of the imagina
tion, devised as a sugar-coating to the
pill.
VII. Including the Georgia Railway
and Electric Company, the actual cap
italization runs to seventy-seven mil
lions.
VIII. With one foot of this giant
;orporation in Georgia, and one in
South Carolina, it is only a question
of time when the Interstate Commis
sion will be appealed to and the Geor
gia Commission ruled out.
IX. The refusal of the Commission
to authorize this issue will result in
the disintegration of this merger, and
a resolving of it into its original com
ponent parts—A THING REALLY TO
BE DESIRED.
X. No great public necessity has
arisen calling for a donation, by the
people, of thirty-one and a half millions
of dollars to the foreign financiers and
the promoters of this merger.
XI. Thirty years of observation in
the United States, Central and South
America, have convinced me that any
so-called development brought about
by FOREIGN MONEY does not result
in material health to the local people.
XII. It is absolutely clear that, but
for the lease of the Georgia Railway
and Electric Company, this Company
could not stand. The interest charges
during the period of construction and
developing business would bring a
receivership in five years.
XIII. There is no crying demand for
the proposed development, our manu
facturing interests are already in ex
cess of our needs, and our farms are
showing the result of the one-sided de
velopment, nor is the country suffering
for interurban lines. In fact, no neces
sity exists for INCREASING the fixed
charges on the people.
XIV. It is also clear that these peo
ple have devised this scheme to save
themselves and unload on the public
their hastily devised and over-capital
ized separate schemes.
XV. In the name of the people, who
will have to foot the bills, I protest
against the granting of any authority
whatever to this Company to carry out
its schemes of spoliation of the people.
(From the Washington Star.)
“I want to do something that will
cause me to be talked about,” said
the ambitious man.
“That’s easily arranged,” answered
his wife. “Merely move into a strange
neighborhood.”
(From Tit-Bits.)
Salesman. You’ll find these good-
wearing socks, sir.
Customer. Rather loud, aren’t
they?
Salesman. Yes, sir; but that keeps
the feet from going to sleep.